Officer Baker's dash into the building forces Mr. Truly's hand prematurely. After the encounter with the man caught walking away from the rear stairway several floors up, he must commit to identifying this man: a worker in the building, but which one? Remember, he cannot reveal the existence of the outside flooring crew. Nor however can he in hindsight declare he was a stranger in the building--------he himself vouched for the man as a worker he recognised!
Erroneously thinking--------on the basis of his and the officer's sighting of Mr. Oswald in the small storage room on the first floor just after the shooting---------that Mr. Oswald did NOT go outside to watch the P. Parade after all, he feeds Mr. Oswald's name to the cops: he was the man we encountered by the stairway.
But (for reasons outlined a few posts back) this causes complications. Mr. Oswald, it turns out, was in the doorway at the time of the motorcade, and there is no guarantee that proof of that will not yet emerge into the public domain (before authorities have had a chance to monkey with it, as they must do with the Wiegman & Altgens images).
Result: the rear stairway encounter is relocated to the second-floor lunchroom, an ambiguous, hedge-betting location that Mr. Oswald could conceivably have reached from EITHER the sixth floor OR from the front entrance.
Now!
If we were to disregard the truth of the statement by Mr. Ochus Campbell that Mr. Oswald was seen, just after Officer Baker and Mr. Truly ran inside, in a "storage room" on the first floor;
and
If we were to linger with the scenario that Mr. Truly was a knowing accomplice to the plot beforehand;
and
If we were to suppose that Mr. Truly was well aware, very quickly after the assassination, that Mr. Oswald had been out front for the P. Parade;
then
We might reconstruct the pickle he is in as follows:
1. Mr. Truly finds himself--------as a result of the motorcycle officer's quick dash into the building--------having to explain away the fact that he vouched for (
as a worker) a man caught walking away from the rear stairway several floors up
2. He knows that this man was a member of the external flooring crew (a.k.a. assassination team)
3. He cannot reveal #2, so he MUST retrospectively identify the 'worker' as an internal employee
4. Identifying Mr. Oswald (falsely) as that 'worker' is very risky (as Mr. Oswald's presence out front could at any time become acknowledged fact); however, NOT identifying the 'worker' as Mr. Oswald is not just risky but suicidal for Mr. Truly
5. Under intense pressure, he finally takes the plunge: yes, we encountered Oswald, but it wasn't up several floors by the stairway, it was in the second-floor lunchroom
He feeds this line to the 'investigating' authorities (who by now know full well that Mr. Oswald was out front), who cede to his greater familiarity with the building................. and Officer Baker is given the gaslighting treatment (But you must be mistaken in your memory------the building manager is quite clear that it was in the lunchroom).
